Money Making Online - Don't Do As I Do, Do As I Say!

By Mark A. Lewis

I hear you're looking for money making online systems. Yes that's right, I can see you... I'm only joking, actually it was Google who told me.

Well you're not the only one, let me tell you what i did!

You see I discovered the internet about nine or ten years ago and was overwhelmed and I guess excited by the huge numbers of emails I would get telling me how I could make money online, thousands of dollars in fact, from all sorts of fantastic ways.

I was particularly excited by one particular email. Who wouldn't want people sending them money when all you had to do was email them the information on how to get people to send them money...

Sounded like a winner to me (I admit all I was thinking was about the money making online). Legislation in the US put that project on the garbage heap.

I then got introduced, to what was in fact a pyramid scheme, where you deposit money to read ads and your account balance would increase with the more ads you view. So you would deposit more money and view more ads. Do you think I made any money on that one?

Yes I'm a slow learner, but after that episode I steered clear of pyramid schemes and looked for legit programs.

It was a matter of good timing when I saw an email about the World Internet Summit. It was just what I needed at the time. Tom and Brett are experts at running reputable internet businesses for money making online and use various methods to teach others the same.

Thinking back though, I wasn't ready to take in the information at the time. I still want to make money fast.

But I digress, back to the World Internet Summit. I was taught at the summit that you need some basic things to run a successful internet business - 'A hungry market', a 'Solution to their problem' and a way to give it to them.

There is some technical knowledge needed such as how to create a website, get traffic and a payment system.

With my new found knowledge I turned a camcorder tutorial program I had into a digital product and used AdWords to get traffic to my webpage, simple!

Not what I expected. My AdWords knowledge was very limited and couldn't get it to work as I had imagined so I dumped that campaign feeling I was losing money when I was supposed to be money making online.

Free traffic! The holy grail.

Sitebuildit was the buzz program at the time. Optimised pages that would rank well on the search engines meaning free traffic. I got it, it worked as promised but...

PGI Insider was the next big thing. Same thing, but supposed to be better.

Affiliate links and AdSense was how the money was made, but I was impatient and building a page at a time was slow, so...

New day, new program, SEO Site Builder. All I had to do was give it a bunch of keywords (thousands of words if I had them) and it would automatically create optimised webpages for each word. But you know me by now, time to try a new program called easy web page generator. The money making online with these programs was mainly done with AdSense (quicker and easier, another bad habit).

Somewhere in there I tried a program called I-rater. You looked at peoples photos and gave them a rating. I was going for the viral traffic element (I later heard that a site called 'facesmash' did it so much better!) once again this was monetized with AdSense.

See a pattern forming? What's the next program? Next came Frank Kern and Ed Dales 'Underachiever' system. You survey customers and create an e-book by answering their questions. Sell the book by putting the sales copy page up where the survey was. I liked that system and stayed with it for longer than most.

This was a good money making online system, but... So I needed to know more, more about internet marketing in general.

I bought the Corey Rudl Internet Marketing Course from the Internet Marketing Center. 'Butterfly marketing' a program by Mike Filsaime and the Warrior Forum are another couple of ways I learnt more.

I heard a John Reese webinar and got into publishing online books with Amazon Kindle and was able to make some money there.

Even though they were working, something was off.

Could you see it? Did you pick up on what I was doing there? How many programs in that timeframe? I'm not very good at following through a project.

Bad habits made me lose focus before any real money could be made.

If money making online is your goal, but you are running around chasing the next big thing or every 'shiny object' that catches your eye you are diluting your effectiveness to get to where you really want to be. It may be a habit in all areas of your life too.

And what did I learn from all this 'chasing my own tail'...

Firstly - Accountability, you need to recognise that everything you do, everything that happens to you in some way, you played a part in it. So if something didn't work out the way that you wanted it to, ask yourself "what part did I play in this event and what can I do differently to make sure the result is different and better?

Second - Learning, everything you do whether you see it as good or bad is an accumulation of knowledge. And at every opportunity you should endeavor to furthering your knowledge if it by books, audio, courses, training or just by having a go at a project and seeing what comes of it!

Finally the concept of focus. To put it another way, you need to take the one pony, train it well and then it can win some races for you!

It's not about working harder, but working smarter!

A goal is great, but you need to plan out the steps to your goal so you can stay on track.

Steps To Goal Achievement

After ensuring you have the right mental attitude, it's time to lay out the practical steps that will be simple and easy to follow.

Step 1 - Set a goal. You need something to aim for. A money making online goal that is both achievable and practical while at the same time being a stretch or a little out of your comfort zone. Something like "I will earn $200 a month from my online business by next June". Remember that along with a monetary figure it's important to assign a date to its achievement.

Step 2 - Make a plan. If you were planning a trip from Los Angeles to New York, your goal in step 1 would be your destination, the plan you put together in step 2 is like your road map.

An example of your plan could be laid out in a format like this: "I will make one webpage a day, one blog a day and upload one article online a day. Adding targeted video uploads to Youtube and a post to my Facebook fan page every other day in order to gain 500 subscribers in two weeks."

Step 3 - Act out your plan!

Step 4 - Review your progress, thoughts, slips etc. each day/evening.

Step 5 - Go back to Step 1 and repeat.

Money making online is about listing these steps and making yourself accountable for their achievement. Something I took note of the second time I went to the World Internet Summit!

"Don't do as I do, do as I say!" That's what my dad would say. So now it's my turn to say "don't do as I did, make steps, follow these steps to your goal and do as I say!"

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5 Strategies For Repeated Online Consumer Business

By Joseph M Caltabiano

The customer is the most important aspect of any business. As online business owners we all want to bring as many customers to our website as possible. Keeping existing customers is just as important as gaining them. Loyalty customer service, addressing complaints promptly, and offering incentives like gifts and discounts are all great practices. However, how are we going to keep these customers coming back again and again if those great practices do not work? Since existing customers are the best source of sales, it is imperative that we have effective strategies that will keep them. Here are 5 strategies that will keep them coming back.

Make it simpler to buy from you than your competition: Customers like simplicity in this fast paced world we live in. When you list your products or services it is very important to not be redundant in your descriptions. Customers want to get what they want and get out. Redundancy can make them bored and want to move on to the next website. Have a clear and detailed description, but with concise wording. A smooth checkout process is also imperative. It is definitely necessary to have a functional and attractive website, but you do not need a fancy website. Having too many graphics can slow the process down with high-speed internet, and even more for the customers who still use dial-up connection.

Modify your pricing structure: Percentage discounts and sales are helpful, but having low prices is even better! A perfect example of a business using this strategy is the world's largest retailer Walmart. If possible, try to cut down your prices without hurting your profits. If you find this too difficult you will need to come up with creative ways to make it happen. Even if you first try lowering your prices by a small amount, that can make a huge difference in sales.

Build a plethora of products and services: A big part to keeping customers is to make sure they not only get to your website, but stay on it. Offering a large amount of products and services makes it very convenient for the customer. A perfect example of a business using this strategy would be the giant online retailer Amazon. Customers would rather enter their checkout information once instead of going to another website and entering it again. It is a fast paced world, and convenience is extremely important to a customer.

Make sure your customer knows your website is secure: With a significant increase in identity fraud these days, it is very important to make sure the customer knows your site is secure. Make sure you state on your site what information is taken and how that information is handled securely. Be specific on exactly how their information is protected. Customers want to make sure they are not sharing their information that can be snatched up by someone else. A sense of security can go a long way for repeated consumer business.

Get your business to stay in the mind of the customer: Successful advertisers have found many ways to keep customers using psychology. A good slogan and/or commercial is a great tool that can get customers to keep your business in their mind. Using a catchy phrase, song, or image that links to something they like or need can stay in a customer's mind. For example, let's say you sold dog food and made a commercial about a dog that looks unhealthy because of the plain dog food he eats. He slowly puts on healthy weight because a specific dog food product that is given to him. That specific product can stay in the mind of the customer. If they happen to see their dog looking too unhealthy, they can question their current dog food and automatically link healthy dog food to your product.

Joseph M. Caltabiano (Online Business Owner)
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Acquiring New Customers By Giving Away Something Free

By Darren W Chow

Online businesses sound like an easy way to make money. You have this idea cooking in your head and you are wondering if it could work. After some time, you decided to give it a try and set up a website. That is when you realize you need paying customers in order to start making money. Here is how the process usually works.

The first thing you do is to set up new products for your web business. You then price them appropriately, and put them up for sale on your website.

The second step is to drive targeted traffic to your website. You can do so via pay per click advertising, article marketing, forum advertising, and other forms of online marketing.

Most people believe that traffic generation is the hardest. That is not true. The next and final step is the most difficult - and that is to get people to buy from you. Internet marketers call this conversion rate. It is the rate at which your web visitors buy from you. The higher the conversion rate, the more sales (and money) you make from your website.

When it comes to conversion, three things matter most. One, you have to have the right offer for the customer. Your product should bring as much value as possible to the customer. Two, the pricing has to be right. Even with the right offer, you can't get people to buy if they don't have the budget to pay for your products. Finally, there has to be a certain level of trust and credibility established. Yes, you can get the occasional sale from a cold visitor but the chances are low. The refund rates are also higher from cold visitors.

Assuming that you have the right offer and the right pricing, all that you need to do is to establish trust. This is where most business owners fail. In a faceless world such as the Internet, how do you go about establishing trust?

One way that has been proven to work very well is to give away free items to your prospects. Why does this method works so well?

1) Builds goodwill. Your free gift immediately builds up a certain level of goodwill with the prospect. It's like meeting someone for the first time and then you bring gifts. You are immediately making the other party happy.

2) Provides a risk free sample. Many people are unwilling to fork out hard earned money for products that they haven't tried before. By giving away something free, you can let them have a taste of what is to come. If they like the gift, they may return to make purchases.

3) Customers remember you better. If you send them something free, they are more likely to remember where they received the gift from (your website!). That may prompt them to return to buy from you.

4) Popular free items create buzz. You don't even have to use something that is related to your business for this work. If you give away popular products for free (such as audio players, computer tablets or mobile phones), that will help generate more marketing buzz for your Company and in turn, lead to more sales.

Check out that free thing for free deals and products. That free thing helps everyone win by creating good deals for everyone.

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How to Really Make Money Online: The Process of Self-Actualization

By Nick Lubbers

I often see people who are trying to make money online looking for a get rich quick solution, with the thought that more money will make them happy, then see them tend to give up or burnout faster. In order for you to truly be happy it may help to know how to self-actualize. What does this mean? Basically it is recognizing what makes you happy, content, and at peace with the world as a whole. Before you get turned off to the idea, realize I'm not talking the hippie, karmic, or extraterrestrial version of mediating in a cave somewhere. I'm talking about being in any endeavor, any career, or any life and realizing happiness. Now, as simple as that sounds a lot of people struggle each and every day with truly being happy, however, a few steps can surely help people get going in the right direction. In navigating the ups and downs of online business, I have developed a few steps that help keep me successful by using self-actualization.

1. The first step for you to take in order to self-actualize is to figure out who you really are. Again, I'm not asking you to spending time in a dank and musty cave, unless that works for you. But a lot of people spend so much time doing things that they don't like to do because they want to fit in or because their friends do those things. As easy as it is to just fit in, the risk is that it takes you further aware from who you really are, essentially further from happiness. You know the saying, if your friends jumped off a bridge, would you? I did! I came to find out I was a bit of an adrenaline junkie, which I had never recognized. So in that instance it worked for me. However, when I started my career, I became extremely successful, in a suit every day, sitting in meetings just for the sake of having a meeting, doing what I could to fit in. I paid more in taxes my most successful year then I had made in income my first 3 years after college! But in all of that fitting in I wasn't serving my true self. Being my own boss gives me the edge I was looking for, even with all of the challenges, it makes me happy. That being said, people should truly think about what they like, what they don't like, and start getting rid of the negatives in life and bring in more of the positives. If you need to, head to your nearest cave!
2. This step may be a little more difficult then you might expect. You need to make a daily effort to be honest with yourself. This is more than waking up in the morning looking in the bathroom mirror and thinking, "I look tired today." It's not about making sure you tell your friends the truth, which in itself is a good habit. For us human beings, it's really easy to alter a situation and look at it differently in order to make it seem better than it is, but that often accomplishes very little in personal growth and happiness. It's important to be honest and take responsibility for not only any wrongdoings but to acknowledge when what we are doing makes us unhappy. It's not that we would be living a life full of lies. But when you are able to be honest with yourself in any situation, you're living to your full potential.
3. While this doesn't need to be a final step, as there are many ways to self-actualize, my third step is to totally commit to the experience of something. To be fully absorbed in the experience itself. The speed of change in society and technology makes it easy to be noncommittal or get distracted nowadays. By fully committing to the experience at hand, you can let your true self emerge. Focus on shutting out external distractions as to how you should be thinking or feeling in the moment. Focus on accomplishment and participation. Be in the moment! Sometimes that means turning off everything that pulls you out of the experience; cell phones, PDA's, etc.

Let's do a quick recap; define who you are, be honest with yourself, and commit to the present experience. In the end, these three steps are great steps to take for those who are trying to achieve self-actualization. Though it may be challenging to follow these steps at times, a little bit of hard work and determination is all it'll take. This simple steps can help give you the edge for your online business to succeed!

Nick Lubbers is one half of The Minivan Millionaires. He and his wife Melissa are experts at making the transition to entrepreneurship while maintaining family balance. Nick brings over 15 years of top level corporate sales success, generating over $40M in revenue in 5 years, to the world of online business. It's these experiences that Nick brings to other parents in building an online business from the ground up, while creating focused family time in the process. Join them at The Minivan Millionaires http://theminivanmillionaires.com

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Some Tips to Earn Online Passive Income

By Mithun Raj R

It is true that making online passive income is something that many people are talking and discussing about these days on the internet.

The traditional definition of passive income is income earned from investments with minimum work such as interest, dividends and rentals from real estates. However, online passive income is different from the traditional one. As seen in the definition of traditional passive income, investment of time and a little money is initially required to build a business to generate online passive income. Generating online income is also a kind of business where failure is a rare chance once it is started generating income, whereas in traditional form of business even the investment made for starting the business may get lost. A business online, however, is not an easy way to get rich once in a blue moon rather it is a start of a long journey, gradually develops skills and can formulate ways to develop steady income. Many entrepreneurs have been formulating ways to make income online and want to put legitimate and efficient ways to make money.

Some of the benefits of generating an online passive income are enumerated below.

• Freedom to choose when and where to work
• This income is not dependent on a fixed time and income can be generated 24 hours on 7 days a week
• One can able to generate income by himself by creating multiple income streams.
• Creating unlimited amount of income or lesser amount of income depends upon the capability and hard work.
• One can have more free time to spend with your family.
• Lastly, one can become capable of contributing more to the community and charitable societies.

There are a number of types of streams to generate online passive income.
• Affiliate programs.
• Creation of information products such as e-book, articles, and forum writings etc.
• Creation of Software products.
• Creation of Web Sites and designing.
• Advertising Commission through Google Ad Sense.
• Referrals programs
• Creation of membership sites.
• By becoming reseller for telemarketing companies like E-Bay etc.
• Creation of Web sites for different subjects and information such as personal finance, Insurance and Games.
• Internet marketing and telemarketing through internet.

Building multiple income streams will help to secure more Online income.

Let's start off a bit about the basic things that one need if you want to generate online income. You need to have a web site with targeted traffic that comes searching for what you are offering. For having a targeted web traffic you need to understand the Keyword research and web traffic techniques. Knowledge about Search Engine Optimization is also an added necessity in order to generate online income.

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Host Quickbooks - Valuable Tool for Bookkeepers

By Sandra Mitchell

Host quickbooks are a valuable tool for any bookkeeper. A bookkeeper's task is to maintain a company's financial records. These are kept in ledgers, journals or statements, collectively known as 'books.' A bookkeeper is not necessarily an accountant. He may not have a license or lack the expertise of a certified public accountant. The company may choose to maintain his services only for in-house data maintenance and internal records. A bookkeeper may also maintain the books for other companies, becoming a freelance bookkeeper, and work with each company's accountants.

Host quickbooks can make a bookkeeper's job exponentially easier. Since it is also his job to record every financial transaction, host quickbooks are necessary to keep track of all real and virtual (online) transactions done by the company. The task of balancing all income and expenditures will then be the sole task of the bookkeeper.

Host quickbooks also facilitate outsourced bookkeeping. Outsourcing is a definitive strategy undertaken by businesses to maximize efficiency and to cut down on the costs. If you consider the costs of maintaining your own accounting servers versus outsourcing, the differences are astounding. For starters, the physical hardware needed to maintain accounting servers, from the mainframe to the computers in the network, can result in an astronomical figure. Aside from this, the personnel needed to maintain this, IT experts whom you would have to keep on call (if not on 24 hour shifts, which will require you to hire an entire team) also demand higher fees. These measures are taken for the sole reason of preventing a computer crash, which could result in the disastrous situation of losing precious data.

Outsourced bookkeepers prefer to work in their own office. This presents a myriad of benefits for the contracting company. Firstly, the company will no longer need to allot actual physical space for the bookkeeper. If you factor in the various elements in hiring an employee, like workplace harmony, redundancy, etc, the intangibles can add up to substantial gains. Second, the isolation of the bookkeeper to his task results in more focus and specialization. Bookkeeping is a life passion for them, not just an occupation or an afterthought. Since they concentrate solely on the development of their craft, and not on office politics or job security worries, the quality of their work is consistently high.

There is actually better control over the bookkeeper you employ in since you can give them as much work as you need to, when you need to. It would be impractical to hire an employee on a contract who you can give just a few hours of work to each month, then add 20 hours of work a week to their workload for a number of weeks, then lessen it to a few hours a month again. An outsourced bookkeeper will be paid for his production, not his hours.

The outsourced bookkeeper and host quickbooks are new elements in business that could change the game of efficiency and workforce maintenance. It is more efficient and practical than the current set-up.

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The Internet Has Changed The Way We Do Everything!

By H. Miller

The internet, it's a blessing and a curse all in one. It has literally changed the way we do everything. From playing, to socializing, to business. It has all changed because of the internet. No longer do you see little kids running around outside playing in the yard. Nope, they are too busy playing games on their favorite website. Which by the way is the reason we have such a high obesity rate in our children these days.

No longer do we pick up the phone or go by a friends house to have a nice visit. Instead we send an email or jump on our favorite networking sites to see what's the latest and greatest news. And business, well the internet has taken business to whole new level. No longer does it take millions or even thousands of dollars to get a business started.

The internet has made it possible for anyone, and that includes you, to start a business for literally pennies. Hey, it doesn't get any better than that. No longer do you have the excuse that you don't have enough money to start a business. With the internet, $20 is all you need.

The internet has turned average Joes into millionaires. Take for example Jacob Hiller. Jacob wrote a book about jumping higher and has sold over a million dollars worth of his book. And what about John Reese, he created a product about traffic generation and pulled in a million dollars in just 24 hours. And yes you read that right.

And let's not forget about the two guys who created MySpace and Facebook. Both are very wealthy now. And its all because of the internet. And guess what? You can do the same thing. You can start a millionaire dollar business right from the comfort of your home. Not trying to make millions? No problem. You can start a part time internet business to help take care of some of the bills each month. Would an extra $500 or $2000 a month help you out? Of course it would.

The internet has literally leveled the playing field and made it possible for anyone to start a business regardless of their background. And the great thing about the internet is that it never closes. You can literally be making money in your sleep. And thanks to technology, your business can run on complete autopilot. All you need to do is check in a few times a week to make sure everything is running smoothly.

Interested in learning how you can earn an extra $2000 or more per month? Check out Fast Track Cash right now and learn how you can unleash the earning power of the internet.

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